Judge: Michelle Williams Court, Case: 23TRCV00031, Date: 2023-09-28 Tentative Ruling

Case Number: 23TRCV00031    Hearing Date: October 26, 2023    Dept: 1

23TRCV00031           CHERIDA ABRAM vs HECTOR MORENO

Joint Motion [to] Transfer Venue

TENTATIVE RULING:       The motion is DENIED.

On September 28, 2023, Department 1 issued an order on the parties’ motion to transfer and continued the hearing to October 26, 2023.

In that order, which is hereby incorporated by reference, the Court took judicial notice of various geographical facts and found the parties failed to provide sufficient evidence to establish the proper filing location under Los Angeles Superior Court Local Rule 2.3(a)(1)(A). The Court continued the hearing to provide the parties an opportunity to respond to the Court’s judicial notice pursuant to Evidence Code section 455(a) and “to submit a supplemental declaration which more specifically identifies the location of the collision and whether it occurred north or south of Manchester Avenue.”

The Court’s order required the parties to submit their supplemental declaration “no later than October 16, 2023.”

The parties did not timely file any supplemental documents. Accordingly, the parties failed to meet their burden as the moving parties to establish the proper filing location.

The Los Angeles Superior Court is only one court, even though it is divided into districts. (See generally Glade v. Glade (1995) 38 Cal.App.4th 1441, 1449 (“Even though a superior court is divided into branches or departments, pursuant to California Constitution, article VI, section 4, there is only one superior court in a county and jurisdiction is therefore vested in that court, not in any particular judge or department. Whether sitting separately or together, the judges hold but one and the same court.”).) Accordingly, nothing prevents the case from continuing in the Inglewood Courthouse where it is presently assigned.